BARBARA MCCLINTOCK BY FRANCESCA MAKUCH
Barbara McClintock was born June 16, 1902. Her death was in 1992. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut. She was the third child out of four. McClintock went to college September 1919 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She went two years without looking at a genetic course. Then during her third year, she took a genetic course. Immediately she loved the course. That year her professor asked if next year she could take a more advanced class, she did. McClintock went through her college doing genetic courses. In 1923 she graduated. She got a Masters degree in botany, as well as a Ph.D. in botany. Both helped in her study of plant genetics.
In 1931, Barbara helped in many ways to the science world, …show more content…
In 1983, she got the Nobel Prize for her discovery of mobile genetic engineering. The theory before McClintock was that genes were fixed to be in one position on the chromosome. McClintock proved jumping genes. McClintock showed what Dissociator and Activators are, and how they change an organism. A dissociator could break the chromosome and change the genes around the dissociator. Only in the presence of an activator through. McClintock also proved the transpose of dissociator and activators. The activators and dissociators can jump, therefore the name jumping genes came along. McClintock was studying corn while finding the dissociators and activators. That is why some corn is purple, instead of a normal color.
I think that this a very important discovery. While McClintock has gotten many awards for many scientific discoveries, this is one of the most important. Jumping genes got us to some of the discoveries we have today. If the world did not have the discoveries McClintock made in the labs she worked in. We would not have the intelligence of the movements of dissociators and activators. That means we would always question why some genetic occurrences happen in an
Barbara McClintock was born June 16, 1902. Her death was in 1992. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut. She was the third child out of four. McClintock went to college September 1919 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She went two years without looking at a genetic course. Then during her third year, she took a genetic course. Immediately she loved the course. That year her professor asked if next year she could take a more advanced class, she did. McClintock went through her college doing genetic courses. In 1923 she graduated. She got a Masters degree in botany, as well as a Ph.D. in botany. Both helped in her study of plant genetics.
In 1931, Barbara helped in many ways to the science world, …show more content…
In 1983, she got the Nobel Prize for her discovery of mobile genetic engineering. The theory before McClintock was that genes were fixed to be in one position on the chromosome. McClintock proved jumping genes. McClintock showed what Dissociator and Activators are, and how they change an organism. A dissociator could break the chromosome and change the genes around the dissociator. Only in the presence of an activator through. McClintock also proved the transpose of dissociator and activators. The activators and dissociators can jump, therefore the name jumping genes came along. McClintock was studying corn while finding the dissociators and activators. That is why some corn is purple, instead of a normal color.
I think that this a very important discovery. While McClintock has gotten many awards for many scientific discoveries, this is one of the most important. Jumping genes got us to some of the discoveries we have today. If the world did not have the discoveries McClintock made in the labs she worked in. We would not have the intelligence of the movements of dissociators and activators. That means we would always question why some genetic occurrences happen in an